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and others, who formed a> corporation to continue the man- 

 ufacture of reels, returned to Frankfort, where he lived un- 

 til his death. 



.To quote Judge Shackelford Miller, further: 



"The plaintiffs, B. C. Milam & Son, now complain that 

 the defendant corporation, 'B. F. Meek & Sons,' with the 

 design and purpose to get plaintiff's trade and to deceive 

 the public, is now and has since its purchase from Ben F. 

 Meek in 1898, been manufacturing reels in Louisville 

 which it puts on the market advertised as the original 

 i Frankfort, Kentucky Reel,' by reason whereof, it is claim- 

 ed, the public are deceived into buying defendant's reels 

 as the reels of the plaintiff's make. 



"No one of the Meeks is interested in or employed by 

 the defendant corporation, "B. F. Meek & Sons." 



"Prior to 1882 the ' Meek & Milam Reel,' made in 

 Frankfort by B. C. Milam, had become generally known in 

 Kentucky as the ' Frankfort Reel,' and outside of the State 

 as the i Kentucky Reel,' or the ' Frankfort, Kentucky 

 Reel' and was so advertised by Milam in 1882, and was so 

 stamped by him in 1896. The descriptive term or phrase, 

 i Frankfort, Kentucky, Reel' was first used by Milam, 

 Furthermore, B. F. Meek was never engaged in the manu- 

 facture of fishing reels in Frankfort after 1855, while Mi- 

 lam had been continuously in that business at the old 

 stand, 318 Main Street, in Frankfort, from 1848 to the pres- 

 ent time, a period of more than fifty years. Under this 

 state of facts, will the defendant be allowed to use the de- 

 scriptive words, i Frankfort, Kentucky,' in describing its 

 reels? 



"The plaintiff's reels have become famous during a 

 period of nearly fifty years of exclusive manufacture at 

 Frankfort, Kentucky in fact, they became so popular as 

 to be generally known and subsequently advertised as the 

 i Frankfort, Kentucky Reel!' To allow the defendant 

 corporation to reap the benefit of the plaintiff's long and 



